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Photographer Finetime and I have our first pints outside Dalton’s, a bar on Brighton seafront, at almost exactly midday. They ...
Nick Mohammed invented his Mr Swallow character – camp, lisping, with an inflated ego and the mistaken belief that he has ...
Ballet is hardly a stranger to Broadway. Until the late 1950s every other musical had its fantasy ballet sequence – think Cyd ...
The plays of David Ireland have a tendency to build to an explosion, after long stretches of caustic dialogue and very funny banter. The Fifth Step, though, is a gentler beast whose humour ends with a ...
The appalling destruction of Pan Am’s flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988 was put under the spotlight in January this year in ...
Every now and then a concert programme comes along that fits like a bespoke suit, and this one could have been specially ...
It's one thing to be indebted to a playwright, as Tom Stoppard and Harold Pinter have been at different times to Beckett, or ...
There’s a grail, but it doesn't glow in a mundane if perverted Christian ritual. Three of the main characters have young and ...
I never really got Radiohead, in no small part because of Thom Yorke’s singing. I appreciate his technical abilities and ...
Good One is a generation-and-gender gap drama that mostly unfolds during a weekend hiking and camping trip in the Catskill ...
Songlines Encounters is your round-the-world ticket to great world music and performances, a chance to travel widely in music ...
The water proves newly inviting in The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Rattigan's mournful 1952 play that some while ago established ...